3 African Men, Oumar Issa, Idriss Abdel Rahman and Harouna Toure Flown to U.S. For Trial Linked To Al Qaeda In The Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) Algeria And Shipments of Cocaine From Africa to Europe Funded by Amer el-Azizi And The "Andalusian Clan"Washington (CNN) -- Three African men suspected of ties to al Qaeda in North Africa have been arrested in Ghana and flown to New York to face charges that they engaged in drug trafficking and supported terrorism, federal officials said Friday.The three Mali natives will stand trial for an alleged drug conspiracy and conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, authorities said. The Drug Enforcement Administration, which announced the criminal complaint, said the suspects will appear Friday in federal court in New York (terrorism connected).Court documents released in Washington reveal a DEA undercover operation that included agents claiming to have ties to FARC, the guerilla army in Colombia that the United States has designated as a terrorist organization. The alleged plot involved shipment of cocaine from Africa to Europe, with al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb helping facilitate the trafficking. The suspects are identified as Oumar Issa, Idriss Abdelrahman and Harouna Toure.Authorities said the apparent ties between the suspected African terror group members and the cocaine traffickers appear to represent an increasingly global effort to use the drug trade to support terrorism. While such a relationship is long-standing in Afghanistan, it has not been common in Africa (oh really read below), officials said, more from this source.............

* The student card of Raquel Burgos Garcia, 34, a Spanish convert and the wife of Amer el-Azizi, was found, eventually, during Waziristan-Offensive in the village of Sherwangi, one of the Teherik-e-Taleban strongholds in FATA region, where there are strong links between Taliban leaders and the "core" Al Qaeda, the Pakistani army reported on 10/29/2009. The Pakistani military has done an incredible discovery to find European passports of two South WaziristanThe region northwest of Islamabad, which is an objective of the major offensive by Pakistani forces since 17 October.

Raquel Burgos Garcia, her passport, is not believed to have taken direct part in any terror activities but has been used as a courier. She is thought to be the holder of a number of other passports. The Pakistani army also found in the same village the Passport of Said Bahaji. Raquel Garcia Burgos, Madrid, was 20 when he met al-Qaeda leader Amer el-Azizi. She married him, converted to Islam and changed her name to Anani ("cloud"). Her transformation was dramatic. She went on to dress in black from head to toe of the more rigorous Muslim style.

This is the official communiqué from Al-Qaeda's Committee in the Islamic Maghreb (Algeria) Published 4/11/2007 to the Internet. Please note the "Second Target" was the headquarters for Interpol, this is the first time Interpol has ever been targeted or even mentioned by al-Qaeda. All three suicide bombers were driving trucks with in excess of 700kg of explosives.

OK, here again we have to ask where did the 3 trucks come from, and why all of a sudden is al-Qaeda targeting Interpol. Interpol has launched an aggressive attack against stolen cars coming out of Dubai and into Africa starting in early 2006, they are cutting off Al-QAEDA FINANCES, BILL WARNER http://www.wbipi.com/

AQIM originated as an armed Islamist resistance movement to the secular Algerian government. Its insurrection began after Algeria's military regime canceled the second round of parliamentary elections in 1992 when it seemed that the Islamic Salvation Front, a coalition of Islamist militants and moderates, might win and take power. In 1998, the group declared its independence from another terrorist organization, the Armed Islamic Group (GIA), believing the GIA's brutal tactics were hurting the Islamist cause. The GSPC gained support from the Algerian population by vowing to continue fighting the government while avoiding the indiscriminate killing of civilians. The group has since surpassed the GIA in influence and numbers to become the primary force for Islamism in Algeria.There are indications that terrorism in North Africa is on the rise and that AQIM is using the Iraq war and other unpopular Western policies to recruit new membership. "Despite the official happy talk," says Olivier Guitta, a Washington-based foreign affairs consultant, "kidnappings by Islamists to raise money for their cause are a routine occurrence in Algeria. And not a day goes by without terrorists' attacking military personnel, government employees, or ordinary civilians, whom they regard as allies of the government."

Collusion between AQIM and al-Qaeda is not a new phenomenon. According to a 2007 report by Emily Hunt of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Osama bin Laden provided funding for Algerian Islamists in the early 1990s and was involved in the GSPC's early formation. Many of the group's founding members trained in al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan. The GSPC declared its allegiance to al-Qaeda as early as 2003, but al-Qaeda's second in command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, officially approved GSPC's merger in a videotape released on September 11, 2006. AQIM has since claimed responsibility for attacks under its new name.

Abdelmalek Droukdal, also known as Abu Musab Abdul Wadoud, is the current chief of the group. University-educated as a science student and well known for his bomb-making abilities, he has led the group since 2004, when its previous leader, Nabil Sahraoui, was killed in a firefight with Algerian forces.Amari Saifi, also known as Abderrazak el-Para because he was trained as an Algerian paratrooper, is a former leader of the group that remains an important figure. Saifi is best known for organizing the lucrative 2003 kidnapping of European tourists in the Algerian Sahara. He was known as the "Bin Laden of the desert" and classified as a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist" by the United States, a title shared by top al-Qaeda commanders before he was captured in Chad in 2004 and eventually extradited to Algeria. In February 2008, AQIM militants kidnapped two Austrian tourists in Tunisia and listed el-Para's release as one of their demands. Algerian courts recently sentenced him to death, though the last execution in the country occurred in 1993.Smuggling and petty crimes are a lucrative source of income, according to the CPT report. The porous, unpoliced borders of the Sahara region make smuggling vehicles, cigarettes, drugs, and arms particularly easy. Europe-based cells provide funds to AQIM through drug dealing, counterfeiting money, and other illegal activities, French and Italian police forces reported to Europol in 2008. The ransom paid as a result of the 2003 kidnapping provided a significant windfall for the group, more from this source................

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